CREECA Spring Lecture Series

Putin’s Leadership and Historical Legacies in Russia: Was the Soviet Revival Avoidable?

Please join us for the first CREECA lecture of the spring semester, featuring Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, faculty at King’s Russia Institute, King's College (London). Sharafutdinova discusses Soviet legacies by advancing a socio-cognitive approach and arguing that Vladimir Putin has indeed relied on the revival of the central dimensions of the Soviet collective identity.